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Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain

GreenBiz

Even before Dang was infiltrating the foodservice industry of the North Atlantic region, he had a deep understanding of the agricultural supply chain from growing up on a small Connecticut farm. Dang couldn’t believe that headline: During his childhood on farms and near restaurants, he hadn’t noticed anything like that kind of waste.

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£335: The Price of Tullow Oil's Environmental Failings — and a Boy’s Funeral

DeSmogBlog

He and his family fled from his workplace at a farm in Trans Nzoia County to escape the violence, settling in his ancestral Lokichar in Turkana County , as an Internally Displaced Person ( IDP ). Tags: Tullow Oil

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How traceability can tackle cattle-driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Business Green

IDH's global director of landscapes Matthew Spencer makes the case for 'farm to shelf' tracing of cattle in Brazil to combat deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. The tracing system means the farms can prove their legality to the meat packers, and the packers can be assured that their supply is legitimately deforestation free.

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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire

GreenTechMedia

offshore wind farm is about to rise 30 miles off Virginia Beach, and it’s happening in the middle of a pandemic. With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. offshore wind market.

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Citing Latest Climate Science, Nearly 30 Arrested Protesting New Natural Gas Plant in New York’s Hudson Valley

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of farms and forests near the New York-Connecticut border, about 80 miles north of New York City.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Nordea Asset Management, which manages roughly $280 billion, gave several reasons for the decision, including JBS’s links to farms involved in Amazon deforestation. . Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio.

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Can forensics tech solve the mystery of supply chain traceability?

Business Green

The good news is there is real innovation happening when it comes to the various sensors and "markers" that could be used for validation - everything from near field communications (NFC) tags to DNA and biome tracers. NFC forensics tags from IN-Code Technologies , used to collect data at specific points of the process.